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submitted 4 months ago by Alsephina@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

“I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the man apparently said before setting himself alight and repeatedly shouting “Free Palestine!”

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[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 45 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

most people remember Tibetan monks doing the same thing

Out of political selfimmolations there were 7 Tibetan cases, but dozens of others including many Americans. I wonder why "most people" remember particularly those. Would it be that US media wasn't fair to report not only this one here?

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago

It was on a cover of a rage against the machine album.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 46 points 4 months ago

Lmao that's what i was talking about, the one on this album cover wasn't even Tibetan, he was Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese buddhist monk, selfimmolating in Saigon in 1963 as protest against US-backed South Vietnam government persecuting buddhists.
So why people like you think he was Tibetan if not for media misleading you? This was literally the most famous of public selfimmolation and the one that started it all for in XX century.

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